Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.